On Nov 26, 2007 5:38 PM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was a great article about this on Bokardo a little while ago...
Joshua Porter wrote that the success of any social networking site
depends on the usefulness of that site in the absence of other users.
In other words,
Interesting story. I noted a couple of telling passages (from a
design/prototype/deployment perspective):
I did what you're always told to do as a young entrepreneur, Abrams says.
I brought on experienced investors to help Friendster fulfill its
potential. But the all-star team was the curse of
Another great revelation is that they were trying to do all these
partnership deals with AOL, etc, and then one night one of the fellas
looked at the web logs and saw that traffic was peaking at 2am, and
they found out the majority of site users were in the Philippines!
On Nov 26, 2007 9:33 AM,
I have two problems with this article.
1) The VC thing happens all the time, and is not unique to Friendster.
It's an old story. I think they're missing the point ...
2) ... Which is: social networking is a tool, not a product.
Friendster, Myspace, Orkut, whatever -- they all fall down when
Weixi - another thing to point out is that he ASSUMED this feature
was important to people, but never actually did
any research to find out if that was the case!
On Nov 26, 2007 11:51 AM, Weixi Yen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is an interesting story with an intricate analysis about the
There was a great article about this on Bokardo a little while ago...
Joshua Porter wrote that the success of any social networking site
depends on the usefulness of that site in the absence of other users.
In other words, what does this site do for -me-, is the primary
concern, the social
This is a little long, but a really great analysis of the first social
networking site -
http://tinyurl.com/2k86l9
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